Webster University History Facts

Below are links to information, facts, dates, and various lists on the history of Webster University.

 

| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | K | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | V | W | Y

 

-A-

• Academic Deans
• Alma mater (school song)
• Alumni Association Presidents

-B-

• Board of Directors, first lay board, 1967
• Board of Trustees, Chairs, 1967-
• Buildings

-C-

• Centennial logo
• Champion For All Award
• Chancellors
• Coeducation
• Commencement locations
• Commencement speakers

-D-

• Dean of Students
• Deans, Webster's Schools and Colleges
• Des Lee Scholars

-E-

• Enrollment

-F-

• Fight Song
• First African American students to graduate (Janet Irene Thomas and Jeannette Mae Jackson)
• First blind student to graduate (Genevieve Hogan)
• First male students to graduate (James Ryan and Daniel Coughlin)
• First Sister of Loretto and nun to graduate (Sr. Ann Francis McArdle)
• First student admitted to SLU School of Medicine (Catherine J. Carroll)
• First student to earn a medical degree (Jean Crowley Antonmattei)
• First student to graduate (Florence Waddock)
• First Webster graduate to enter the Sisters of Loretto order (Mary Reddin)

-G-

• Ghosts
• Gorlok (school mascot)
• Gor-Rock
• Green cap or "beanie"

-H-

• Historical dates
• Honorary Degrees

-I-

• Ivy Poems and Plantings

-K-

• Kemper Award Recipients

-M-

• May Queens
• Messing Faculty Award
• Musicale

-N-

• Name changes to the institution
• Named (endowed) chairs

-O-

• Opening of Webster University

-P-

• Presidents
• Provosts

-R-

• Registrars
• A History of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis

-S-

• School colors
• Shakespeare Pilgrimage
• Sisters of Loretto (university founders)
• Spirit of Webster College plane

-T-

• Transfer to a lay board, 1967
• Tuition

-V-

• Vaudeville

-W-

• Webster seal
• Webster Victory ship
• World War II: see Webster Victory ship and Spirit of Webster College plane

-Y-

• Yearbooks